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We had our 19 week sonogram yesterday. My family of five, soon to be six, crammed into the sono room at my doctor's office to find out...boy or girl! Isaac has always been convinced the baby was a boy and Julia really wanted a sister. Julia and I are even more outnumbered now. We are having another baby boy!!!

While the doctor was doing his routine check of the baby, he measured the length of the femur. At that time Gabe and I both saw our lil' guy's boy parts but we didn't say anything. I will admit, I really thought this baby was a girl. So when I realized it was a boy I had to take a minute and get my head wrapped around having another boy. Didn't take long. I love, love, love my boys and am overjoyed to add another one to the mix. I was ecstatic that he looks to be growing well and healthy.

his face

his feet

When the doctor finally made the official announcement I wish I had had camera on my kids to catch their reactions. Isaac was whooping and hollering his happiness. Julia, on the other hand, was distraught and quite frankly a little miffed. Caleb was completely indifferent. He was still trying to figure out how we were seeing a baby on that TV!! As we were packing up to leave, Julia buried her face in my stomach and cried. She REALLY wanted a little sister. Gabe told her that she would have 3 brothers now to protect her. I told her she would always be our little princess and that she and I would have lots of girl time just the two of us. In a family of 6, that special one on one time is priceless. She perked up pretty quickly and now a day later she is SO EXCITED about her new little brother. Just this morning she was making up songs to sing to him so he would know her voice. She is having fun with me as we plan how to incorporate her baby brother into her room. I think these two will have a special bond.

During the sonogram the doctor said our baby boy is doing well. However, my placenta is not in an ideal location. I have partial placenta previa. Not a whole lot we can do about that right now except wait and pray that as the uterus grows the placenta will move up and out of the way. I will have my next sonogram at 32 weeks to check the placement of the placenta. If at that time it has not moved or has become a full placenta previa then I may be placed on bed rest and will definitely be scheduled for a C section. Obviously, I don't want either of those two things to happen, but most importantly I pray that our baby boy is safe and healthy.


Now I have to figure out how I am going to fit this baby boy into my daughter's very pink room! I do believe, though I wanted to avoid this, we will be repainting again very soon. Here is the bedding I have ordered. I had it narrowed down to two and couldn't decide. So I called in the troops...Isaac and Julia both unanimously chose this one. They liked the trees and animals on the print.

Now I can spend the rest of the summer getting things ready for the arrival of our baby boy. Once school and our fall schedule starts up again I won't have any time to do all these little things. And in the back of my mind I now have the thought that IF I have to go on bed rest I really need things to be in order. I am a planner. I can't help it. It's in my nature!!

I'm off to nest!